City to host planning open house

Join Mayor Stimpson and other city officials for the Map for Mobile open house at the Alabama Cruise Terminal on Thursday, July 16. This family-friendly event will feature fun activities, food, and entertainment.

“This is a rare chance to be a part of creating positive change that will impact the growth of our city for years to come,” Stimpson said. “I invite citizens to bring the whole family, because no one knows Mobile better than those who live and work in this community.”

There will be a brief overview of the plan’s status and next steps at 5:30PM, but citizens are encouraged to drop in anytime between 4:30 and 6:30 to review the draft plan recommendations and talk one-on-one with city staff and planning consultants.

These draft recommendations are based on community input gathered at the Focus on the Future Workshop in March and the Designing the Future Workshop in May, as well as dozens of community and stakeholder meetings.

Map for Mobile is the City of Mobile’s first comprehensive plan to be conducted in more than 20 years. This intense eight-month process to develop a long-range plan will build off other recent planning endeavors for the city and the region. The plan will serve as a guide for long-term preservation, revitalization, and growth so that the city can achieve the goals and aspirations of citizens.

About The Author

Dale Liesch has been a reporter at Lagniappe since February 2014. He covers all aspects of the city of Mobile, including the mayor, city council, the Mobile Housing Board of Commissioners, GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico and others. He studied journalism at The University of Alabama and actually graduated in 2007.
He came to Lagniappe, after several years in the newspaper industry. He achieved the position of news editor at The Alexander City Outlook before moving to Virginia and then subsequently moving back a few years later. He has a number of Alabama and Virginia Press association awards to his name.
He grew up in the wilderness of Baldwin County, among several different varieties of animals including: dogs, cats, ducks, chickens, a horse and an angry goat. He now lives in Midtown Mobile with his wife, Hillary, and daughter, Joan. The family currently has no goats, angry or otherwise, but is ruled by the whims of two very energetic dogs.